Category: Security
State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2023: MSP opportunities lie ahead
“Cybersecurity nerds” like myself wait with bated breath for Accenture’s annual “State of Cybersecurity Resilience 2023” report to be released. This is because the report never fails to disappoint in providing a “snapshot” of the current state of cybersecurity. With such...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Critical MOVEit vulnerability discovered
A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the MOVEit Transfer software, prompting urgent action from customers to patch their systems. This flaw, identified as CVE-2023-36934, allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the affected system with elevated privileges without...
Financial operations: a new managed service potential?
For the past decade, developers have been given free rein to consume cloud resources. Still, as more organizations encounter economic headwinds, a larger percentage are embracing financial operations (FinOps) to rein in those costs. Mixed results from this are creating...
Barracuda enhances MSP management capabilities with Barracuda MSP App
In the recent ‘The Evolving Landscape of the MSP Business 2023’ report, Barracuda surveyed 500 managed service providers (MSPs) and knowledge workers globally to learn more about their outlook on the remainder of the year. The report highlights a handful...
A cybersecurity checklist to protect against ransomware
July is ransomware awareness month. While ransomware has been making headlines since the late 1980s, it remains prevalent and is impacting businesses of all sizes. In the ‘2023 ransomware insights report‘, our research shows that 73 percent of the 1,350...
Making security pay
Service providers often struggle financially, even when their business is growing, because it can be challenging to achieve and maintain profitability. MSPs have seen success by adding security services to their offering to offset this challenge. However, security needs vary...
Survey shows strong need for external cloud expertise
A global survey of 1,000 technology practitioners and decision-makers conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of HashiCorp finds 43 percent plan to work more strategically with systems integrators, resellers, and consultants, to better manage their cloud computing environments. There is...
Cybersecurity view from an artificial intelligence optimist
2023 has been the year of generative AI. Will it transform cybersecurity as we know it? Or will the status quo prevail as a continual cat-and-mouse game between the cyber-good and the cyber-bad? SmarterMSP is talking to a variety of...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: New FortiNAC critical vulnerability update released
A critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-33299) with a CVSS score of 9.6 has been discovered in Fortinet’s FortiNAC product. This vulnerability poses a significant risk as it could allow an unauthenticated user to execute unauthorized code or commands by...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Command injection flaw in Zyxel NAS devices
Zyxel, a networking equipment manufacturer, has released urgent security updates to address critical vulnerabilities in their network-attached storage devices. CVE-2023-27992 (CVSS score: 9.8) has been declared as a pre-authentication command injection vulnerability. What is the threat? The threat involves multiple vulnerabilities...
